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Advancing gene therapy for new glaucoma treatments
When a patient is diagnosed with glaucoma, their treatment will focus on slowing down or stopping the disease to prevent vision loss.
Glaucoma causes progressive damage to the optic nerve, the vital transport system which sends visual information from the eye to the brain.
“If glaucoma is left untreated or detected late it can lead to irreversible vision loss,” explains CERA Managing Director and world-renowned glaucoma researcher Professor Keith Martin.
“Currently, most glaucoma treatment focuses on reducing eye pressure to prevent damage to the optic nerve.
“But these treatments don’t work for about 15 per cent of patients and there is nothing we can do to repair the damage to the optic nerve once it has occurred – or to restore vision that has been lost.”
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Calls for prioritizing those with pre-existing conditions for the COVID-19 vaccine grow One Columbia man with spinal muscular atrophy is calling for high-risk individuals to be moved up in line. (Source: Family photo) By Emily Wakeman | February 21, 2021 at 5:41 PM EST - Updated February 21 at 7:19 PM
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - COVID-19 has placed thousands of South Carolinians with pre-existing conditions in difficult situations as they try to protect their health while waiting their turn in line for the vaccine.
Those with underlying health conditions that put them at high risk for severe disease are currently in phase 1c of the vaccine roll-out in South Carolina. The state currently
NORVEL. By Kenneth Conklin. Self published. 359 pages. $26.99.
Norvel Lee, a big man with a big heart, came out of the hills of northern Botetourt County to win a boxing match at the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki, Finland, and a landmark desegregation case before the State Supreme Court.
Kenneth Conklin, a retired technology writer, also from Botetourt, tells Leeâs story in a fictional version of many events in the life of a man who proudly carried his African American heritage from a farm on Mill Creek near Gala to Howard University, the Army Air Corps, international boxing circles and civic leadership in the Washington area.
Sunday 21 February, 2021 | 12:27 PM
JERUSALEM: The risk of illness from Covid-19 dropped 95.8% among people who received both shots of Pfizer s vaccine, Israel s Health Ministry said.
The vaccine was also 98% effective in preventing fever or breathing problems and 98.9% effective in preventing hospitalizations and death, the ministry said.
The findings were based on data collected nationally through Feb. 13 from Israelis who had received their second shot at least two weeks previously. According to the Health Ministry s website, about 1.7 million people had been administered a second shot by Jan. 30, making them eligible to be included.
Israel s ambitious vaccination drive has made it the largest real-world study of Pfizer’s vaccine and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday he expects 95% of Israelis age 50 and over to be vaccinated in the next two weeks.